9 Killer Blogspot SEO Tips For bloggers

We already had enough conversation about BlogSpot or WordPress and for one reason I don’t like BlogSpot much is because the limitation of optimizing it for the search engine. There are many BlogSpot SEO guides that you will find on The Internet, and many of them are related to template editing and all, but in WordPress, plugins make it easier to optimize your blog.

Anyhow, I’m not here to disappoint my BlogSpot friends. Instead, I will be sharing some cool BlogSpot SEO tips which will help you to get better ranking. Blog-Spot being a free Blogging platform, it’s always a preferred platform to start Blogging and learn the basics.

Google Blogger is free and easy to use web publishing tool. Many bloggers initially use Blogger and then Migrate to WordPress complaining about the lack of official templates, post SEO friendliness, plugins, etc., We have already discussed this in our previous post with the little effort we can make Blogger posts SEO friendly and an effective free medium for online business. So here I have collected some search engine optimization (SEO) tips for Blogspot blogs arranged in no order.

BlogSpot SEO: Useful Tips and Tricks

When we talk about SEO, very first thing which you need to keep in mind is: We can control on site and off site SEO. On Page SEO is covered by you which includes article quality, how well it’s optimized for Keyword and meta value for that article. No need, to feel furious or lost with above SEO terminology, as below mentioned guide will help you to learn every basic and make your Blogger blog more search engine friendly.

Permalink plays a great role in search engine ranking of your post. There are few rules which everyone should follow for Blogspot permalinks:

Keep the number of characters in post title to 50

Remove Stop Words from permalink (Ex: A, an the)

While writing a blog post, you have the option to edit the permalink. Simply use it to edit your permalink and remove the stop words. A good idea is just to use Keywords in your permalink. (Don’t make it look spammy). While writing the blog post, you get the option in your right panel to keep it automatic permalink or manual permalink. Simply select manual permalink and edit it according to your wish. Check this screenshot for example:

Keyword density is an important aspect for better ranking. Too less will lead to less ranking and stuffing your Keyword will lead to over optimization. I usually maintain a ratio of 2%/post. Though, you can pick keyword density for your Blogpost SEO, account to one which works for you. Publish articles in relevance to post title and include necessary keywords in the post. Never stuff keywords to manipulate search engines. But after finish writing, you can analyze the whole post to find out suitable locations where the keywords can be safely inserted without distracting readers.

Label adds to the keyword density of the post. Labels should be widened rather than putting them into the single narrow category.I will explain this point by an example. Consider a situation when you are posting about Google Chrome and putting them into label Windows software’s or browser. Here you will miss keywords like Chrome browser, Google chrome, etc. which would otherwise add to the keyword density of the whole post. Labels also affect related posts widgets in Blogger.And if there are so many posts tagged with similar labels, it would affect the arrangement of articles in related posts.

Format Blogger post title

When we talk about BlogSpot SEO, post title plays a major role. Blogger post title is usually followed by home page title. Have a look at the image shown below.

Here the post title should be “city of (long-distance ) Love! “. But the title is included in the home page title ” Still in Berlin “, and this would harm the SEO friendliness of the article title. Here is how to fix this. Go to Blogger edit HTML > find out code section

We have already shared a detailed article on Image optimization for SEO and basis of optimization your image on BlogSpot is by adding alt tag and title tags in every image. In WordPress, this could be easily achieved by using plugins but in BlogSpot, this needs to be done manually. You should insert them manually after uploading each image. Here is ShoutMeLoud popular guide on Image optimization for SEO.

Provide meta tags

Meta tags are generated HTML tags used by search engines to identify the title, description, and other details of a URL. They don’t have much influence on search as they were before, but would make a slight impact on targeted keywords.

The title, footer, and description plays an important role in search engine optimization of every blog. If you are targeting, some keywords make sure that you included those keywords in the above-mentioned locations.

Nofollow external links

Nofollow is an HTML attribute specified on hyperlinks to block search engine advantage of external links in a website. In Blogger, you can select HTML section of the post window and add rel=”nofollow” attribute just after URL to prevent search engines from crawling a particular link. Also read: How to add nofollow link attribute to any link.

Format comment section

The Comment section should be no-followed and moderated to avoid spam comments. Try to include the post keywords when you are replying to reader comments. This would also add up to the total keyword density of the post. Since Google have integrated Google plus comment form with BlogSpot, I highly recommend you to enable it. This will ensure that you get higher social media interaction and share for your post.

I hope this guide will give you a much better idea about BlogSpot SEO, though my suggestion would be when you think you are ready with Blogging and had enough experience on BlogSpot, move to WordPress. Here is a wonderful guide for WordPress, which will help you to get started.

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COMMENTS ( 118 )

Thanks being shared informative details about the blogspot, Many starter blogger used to blogspot to start their career in blogging, so its very helpful for me also, I would follow all these tips, whatever you shared here.

Hey, Nice Article. But about Blogspot, I think It’s not So SEO Optimized as wordpress on a own Hosting. I followed many SEO rules on a Blogger Blogspot based site. Like, all meta tag, Schema.Org Markup good quality. Quality title, Description and article. But it produce very low search result. I think Blogger blogspot is lil bit SEO disabled for it’s free services. Beacuse we can’t access the root.

Thank you so much for this… I have been struggling with my blogspot SEO for a while now and 85% of the info you provided here for optimizing blogspot is new to me. I can’t wait to try it out and give my blog that needed boost.

Hi harsh, I thought that I don’t need to do an SEO on my blogspot as this is host by google and google will do the SEO i was so wrong, then I realized after reading this article Thanks for this post Just started implementing it on my blog. Great things ahead.

Thanks Harsh for sharing this very useful informative post. I have seen many bloggers start creating a multi-niche blog. It’s good if you have an consultation with expert. Unless you know everything, especially basic things about any particular niche or topic, don’t tackle with that field. Because there are many of experts competing for that field.

Yest it’s correct. Everyone want their blog on first page of google search engine. But very few know this technique, How to get your blog on first page of google search engine, But thank you so much for giving such a nice tips. It’s really helpful for me.

I guess content composition is very crucial not only the SEO prospect but also with the user experience. And Thanks for great tips. SEO is very essential for every website and blog. Great work keep sharing

This information is quite relevant for me because i have a gaming blog and for that i need some tips. I’m glad that i landed on this page, i guess now i can do the correct things for my blog. So thanks a ton for such useful information.

I spent a lot of time on the web & try to find the title solution, but not found any good info.

But when I searched On page SEO for Blogspot blog keyword then found your post on 1st position. And implement your mentioned code on my blog. Now I’m Happy to do this.
Blogging related every solution available on your blog.

Thanks, A lot!! You are a real hero in blogging industry. Thanks Again

Excellent Thinking of Articles. These comments are really wonderful and very effective. The No follow external links are really effective with the quality of every comments. Great information for the wonderful articles.

Hey there great post. I seem to be one of the only ones who prefers Blogger over WordPress. I can see that Blogger has disadvantages, however I found my wordpress to be confusing and it was showing ads that I didn’t put onto my website. I was paying and everything. Blogger has done me good over the past few years.

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Thanks for sharing this important information. Actually, I am seeking for relevant suggestions that can help me to increase traffic on my blog. By reading your article, I have gathered some important SEO information that are very useful for my blog. Thanks once again!

i have a website with some article. i sign up for google webmaster and submit sitemap to google. now i want to know that when i make a new article on my blog then i have to submit separately every new article to google add url.

Thanks Harsh for giving such brilliant tips. I have used some of these on my blogspot blogs and have found them useful. Specially the “Format Blogger post title”. This is great.

I have one question if you can answer it can help me. Adding the code for posts has worked great but it does not change the seo for page.

I have some pages in blogger blog which are still showing the title of my blog first and it needs to be corrected. How can i do that. I have a page like this myblog.com/p/abcde on blogspot and need help for this.

Well Explained SMARTINTJOSE! Thank you for this helpful SEO tips for the blog.
All Experts concur that you need to add keywords to your metadata however nowadays an issue comes up into a picture that Google is not considering metatags in ranking, Can you please throw the light as how much this information is true?

I have started a blog called HackHackers . It’s almost complete 4 months . I have wrote 90+ Post . But my problem is i got very less number of traffic from search engine . How can i edit my previous post so that i will rank better in search engine . I am still on blogger platform because I want to blog for 0 investment .

I have read the article and I agree that these tips are useful to set up basics of SEO for Blogger blogs.
With some little customizations and optimizations now Blogger blogs are very SEO friendly. The only thing which is hard to obtain in Blogger blogs about SEO is speed of the blog which in WordPress can be easily achieved through various plugins
Eitherway great post from great blog which I enjoy reading for a long time now and please keep it up 🙂

Hi Harsh,
Yes, we need to format our post URL and it is a good idea. It can help us to rank better on the SERPs.

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Very nice and informative post. I want to know the answer of a question which i had posted on may forums but can’t get any reply, i hope you will help me. Bro last week i checked DA, and PA of my Blog and DA was 21, and PA 31, but in Moz (moz.com/researchtools/ose) analysis it shows Spam score 4/17 for my blog, so my question is how to remove that spam score?? and second is that affect on rankngs or not??.

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@Jessica
You are so right about blogging being a profitable online business & for some it takes a month or years to earn decent income from it. I believe most important thing here is the approach. If your approach is correct, I think it would work out great in shorter span.

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These tips has given me so much information. As a blogger, it is also important for us to read and listen of what other blogger’s ideas cos it will greatly help us for the success of our online campaign. I haven’t used the blogspot platform cos I am not yet sure of its SEO impact. Thanks for clarifying everything and I think I should give blogspot a try.

Almost every who are in online want to become a blogger and willing to make blogging as his/her career. You have good command on Blogging and Blogger. Thank s for sharing . This will be helpful for them who are new in blogging!

Hi Smartin Jose, A great tips you have shared on blogger, I would like to know How Google is handling SSL updates with Blogger, I have seen Matt cuts to switch towards Https, Is it signal for blogger to move from http to https? I finding this answer but still not received.

Also if we have to move from http to https then how it can possible with blogger, having a custom domain?

Hey, I really appreciate your write up. Blogging is proving to be a major tool for SEO as well as SMO. With keeping the keywords in mind, after the Google’s recent updates, it’s important for bloggers to also take care of the SEO Techniques and have strong Social Media backup!! Thanks for this

I was edit template to make proper titles with your code .
It made my titles without useless blog name. But the strange thing that i see is that titles appearing in Google serp now as :
“post titles” – “blog name” – “Blogger”
while title code is only “post title”
Coould you tell me please why this happen?

I’m a new blogger hoping to grow this big someday. I tried the permalink change on an already published item and it seems to have worked. First I reverted the published item to draft, then I updated the permalink and saved. So far I haven’t seen an error message… Or is there something I’m missing. Hope this helps people who want to do same on old posts

Nice Post,
But one thing I want to say is – Some times I saw some blog links appears in google results just after it posted on blog, result contains the term “2 hour ago”.
I want to know the secret behind it. Can my post also get listed just after I publish them ?

@Neha
Yes, you need to work on improving the crawl rate of your blog. Here are few tips:

Manually ping your blog to ping services. You can take help of http://pingler.com
Maintain a publishing schedule. This will help Google to set a crawl rate for your blog.
Build more backlinks, this will give another way for bots to come to your blog often.
Submit your sitemap to Google Webmaster tool.

Thank You Harsh,
Specially for Ping service, I was not aware of this. I used pingler.com and some result not shown. anyway I think it will help most. One more thing I submitted sitemap to webmaster, it a great tool but I dont know how to build more and quality back links, can you help me on this matter too.
Regards

I tried using the html tags like and , but it’s still of no use.
I was also having probs in editing the html code fr the twitter gadget. I had taken d code frm a site and i wanted to change the pic, but with the current code only a part of the pic gets displayed. Can u help me with that too?

As u had said, i reverted back to a basic template. But still it’s not provinding any formatting text options. I tried using and too, but its still nt wrkg.
And the worst part is that now i’m not getting the layout option on the dashboard. Without that, i wont be able to use any templates other than the ones provided by blogger.

@harsh
Thanks for such a quick response. I reverted back to a basic template. But the basic templates don’t provide any formatting options. I had earlier tried using and for making paragraphs but it didn’t work, and its not wrkg in d basic template too.

Kadambari That problem may be because of your template. Try to revert back to some basic template for a while and check of you are able to make text formating. moreover before you do that, make sure you take a backup of your current template.

I have create a new blogspot site recently. And I have active my blogsite for Adsense. When I include HTML/JavaScript Ad code into my blogsite by add a gadget there is no show Ads into my site. Why this; anyone can help me about this matter.